Peyton’s The Name, Bloggin’s The Game

My Semester’s Story I groaned as I looked at the screen in front of me at the email I had just received. As my eyes found the name of the message’s sender, I felt shivers run down my spine. The email contained a simple message from a helpful and understanding man, yet I felt the pit of my stomach fill with fear nonetheless as I read his memo. My first semester was officially over, the deadline for every mighty deed to be completed was hours away, yet here I sat in front of a computer, a sick feeling of dread in my bones, reading an email that caused memories of my entire journey so far to crash into my mind. The email’s contents were neither threatening nor hostile, yet the feeling of calm, ominous expectation seeping through the words may have been the scariest thing I had faced my entire journey thus far. As my eyes soaked in the words, I felt the dread intensify. The name of the email’s topic was simply one word: “Dude,” and the rest of the message was equally simple: “Need the c...

    Don’t you hate it when you get up one morning, take a look around, walk outside, and realize that everything you thought you knew about life was a lie? Yeah, you’re not alone. It’s rarely a fun experience to go through an epiphany—a complete change in perspective—like this. It can be a strange, scary incidence that is accompanied by a lot of pain, confusion, anger, and fear, and it often leads to experiences that are new and unknown. Epiphanies can lead to doubts and questions about what we think to be true and, if they are serious enough, to the reevaluation of ideas that we have held our entire lives. True epiphanies come as a result of discovering new truths that shed light on facts or information that was previously unknown to us, facts that can cause us to think deeply and consider the conclusions that we have about our knowledge of the world that we live in. These changes in thought can range in size and magnitude, but the typical epiphany causes a pretty large...